A-Z of extreme sports



• aerial ballet
You jump out of an airplane with some friends. Before your parachute opens, you dance with them in the sky.

• aggressive in-line skating
You jump up high on your skates. You kick and you do trikc.

• BASE jumping
You jump off a building or a bridge with a parachute. You usually open your parachute as late as possible.

• BMX bike riding (vert)
There are three kinds of BMX bike riding. In vert, you do as many tricks as you can in one minute.

• canyoning
Bungee jumping is a jump from a high place with a rope around you. Canyoning is the same- but into cold water! Brrr.

• cave diving
You dive under the water with air on your back.

• hang gliding
This is the oldest extreme sport. Otto Lillienthal, a German, did it in 1893.

• snowboarding
Snowboarders do tricks on their snowboards in the snow.

• street luge
The board has wheels on it. You get on the board, on your back, and go down the road at about 110 kph.

• wakeboarding
A boat pulls you and your board over the water- fast. You do tricks on your board.

• zorbing
You climb inton a three-meter ball. Then somebody pushes the ball down th street at about 50 kph.

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Extreme Sports by Michael Dean